ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
It’s great to see that the Wild Things Festival is making a return for a second year. That means another opportunity to try some of the funkiest beers and ciders from around Ontario, plus natural wines from all over the […]
By Jordan Duff Beau’s All Natural Brewing and Great Lakes Brewing are two veteran breweries that have been at the forefront of Ontario’s beer resurgence. Fittingly, they are co-brewing the feature beer for the Terroir Symposium to demonstrate to the […]
By Jordan Duff Beer and running. While at first blush, these two popular pastimes seem like polar opposites, they can pair nicely. Consider events like The Canada Beer Run, where participants run through the host city, stopping at breweries along […]
The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies is marking their 5th birthday next month with their 5th Lady Beer Fest (formerly known as the Birthday Bevy). That means that North America’s largest women beer organization will bring together 10 breweries, one […]
A few days before Christmas I found myself at the annual Indie Alehouse Stout Night. It’s hazardous and flawed to think a particular beer style belongs exclusively to a certain season — that goes especially for stout where many low-ABV […]
As the weather gets colder the temptation to stay in with a snifter of barleywine sets in. That’s fair, but we also love a good winter-season beer event. Here are three good ones coming up in Toronto. Great Lakes Christmas […]
I’m not a rollercoaster guy. Or, at least, that’s what I thought before this year. In 2018, I’ve been to Canada’s Wonderland twice already and have taken big strides towards loving the stomach-turning drops. Luckily, I had a bit of […]
During a recent conversation, I had with Stephen Beaumont about his new book Will Travel for Beer, he answered my question about beer festivals by saying that he’d like to see more specialized beer events in North America. As it […]
As every Canadian knows, the Monday before May 25 is set aside to celebrate Queen Victoria’s proclamation, in 1867, that all cases of beer in British North America will have exactly 24 bottles. The little-known second part of the 151-year-old […]
April is a sort of tense time in the beer calendar. Despite our current weather, it’s definitely spring, but May 2-4 is still over a month away and Father’s Day – the real kickoff for brewery events every weekend – […]